Word: ransoming
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...tomato packer, son of a Nazarene preacher. He and his wife used to lodge with Skeegie Cash's parents. He knew the child well, and knew how much money James Bailey Cash, the father, had in the bank-just about $10,000, the sum asked for in ransom. McCall had professed great sympathy for the bereaved parents, had joined the first searching parties. But Mr. Cash's brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found" one of the ransom notes under Brother Cash's store door, 2) he remarked how easy...
McCall also helped the G-men find the ransom money. All but $5 of the $10,000 was recovered. McCall admitted taking that, but not the child...
...family last week were allowed to leave Vienna, went to London. He was permitted to take his library with him, had to abandon his other properties including his publishing house. According to the London Daily Herald, Sigmund Freud was held in Vienna until wealthy friends paid a ransom for his release. In London, in the furnished house in Chelsea his son Ernst has rented for him, Freud will pick up his interrupted labors-at present a psychoanalysis of the Bible...
...left by his mother while she went to help her husband shut their grocery store for the night. Some one slit the rear screen door and carried off the child in his pajamas. Lodgers upstairs heard only a faint sound which they thought was the Cashes coming home. A ransom note was found at the house of Mr. Cash's brother...
PRINCETON, FLA.--G-Mon tonight pinned their hopes for early solution of the kidnaping of five-year-old Jimmy Cash on appearance of bills in the $10,000 ransom paid by James Cash, Sr., for return of his only...